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Best camcorder for HDTV viewing of the videos?

I am on a limited budget and would love to find a small digital video recorder that will produce sharp videos for viewing on a 42" HDTV. I know to look for the optical zoom but I've heard conflicting reports of built in hard drives vs. not having that feature. Also, the tapes are the only way to do video vs. the cards for still photos, right? So, will I go broke buying tons of tapes?

I am not interested in a camera that does stills and video--just video.

Should I be matching the dpi of the recording ability to the dpi of the TV or is 720 dpi about the most the human eye can discern? What about the fps and the external mic capability?

The more reviews I read, the more confused I get, since I am in no way a techno saavy person. Any answers appreciated. I just want decent video of family events to watch on my TV. Thanks...

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago
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    Hard Drive camcorders are some of the easist to transfer movies to your PC for editing with, so I'd go that route.

    Get the camcorder with as high a resolutions as you can afford. "Full HD" is the keyword for full sized 1920x1080p resolution. There won't be a heck of a lot of difference between that and a 720p, but the difference can be noticed on a 42" HDTV if you look for it.

    Optical zoom is nice, so is image stabilization. However anything beyond 10x zoom is really stretching it for hand held operation as even image stabilization can't compensate for slight hand movements at that kind of zoom.

    An external mic port is nice, if you actually plan to use it. The weakest portion of most camcorders is their audio recording ability.

  • ?
    Lv 4
    4 years ago

    properly define a common computing gadget? I build custom computers for video editors and that they are actually not off the shelf systems via fact the terrific and quickest thank you to edit video should be considered. You via all ability use a common computing gadget if its have been given a firewire connection, has the applying which you ought to edit and create. yet then it ought to be previous and gradual meaning that what i will do in 20 minutes on considered one of my systems takes you 6 hours.. (particular it is truly a real time calculation) maximum (if no longer all) CRT video exhibit units are HD in actuality are greater effective than the ultimate HD specs. a great form of TFT exhibit screen are actually not.. in spite of the undeniable fact that it relies upon.. HD sizes are 720 and 1080 so any exhibit screen that would carry out those resolutions is a HD exhibit screen. you could burn on a DVD RW, yet you would be constrained via the size of the information or lengh. There are DL DVD RW's (twin layer) which will burn around 9.6 gigabytes of information and there are HD DVD's as properly. you purely ought to verify that your DVD RW will artwork with those discs. inspite of the undeniable fact that previous-formed now, head over to my internet site and verify out the systems that are designed for progaming and video enhancing. notice which you could want a multitude of disc storage

  • J I H
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago

    Ihave no problem watching videos made with my JVC.(& it's a Hard drive one).

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